{"id":3864,"date":"2012-02-15T08:59:04","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T22:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=3864"},"modified":"2012-02-15T08:59:04","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T22:59:04","slug":"un-world-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=3864","title":{"rendered":"UN World Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They say, &#8220;Many a true word spoken in jest!&#8221;<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s another&#8230;<br \/>\nWORLD SURVEY BY PHONE<br \/>\nLast month a world-wide telephone survey was conducted by the UN.<br \/>\nThe only question asked was:<br \/>\n&#8220;Could you please give your honest opinion about solutions to the food<br \/>\nshortage in the rest of the world?&#8221;<br \/>\nThe survey was a massive failure because of the following:<br \/>\n1. In Eastern Europe they didn&#8217;t know what &#8220;honest&#8221; meant.<br \/>\n2. In Western Europe they didn&#8217;t know what &#8220;shortage&#8221; meant.<br \/>\n3. In Africa they didn&#8217;t know what &#8220;food&#8221; meant.<br \/>\n4. In China they didn&#8217;t know what &#8220;opinion&#8221; meant.<br \/>\n5. In the Middle East they didn&#8217;t know what &#8220;solution&#8221; meant.<br \/>\n6. In South America they didn&#8217;t know what &#8220;please&#8221; meant.<br \/>\n7. In the USA they didn&#8217;t know what &#8220;the rest of the world&#8221; meant.<br \/>\n8. In Australia they hung up as soon as they heard the Indian accent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They say, &#8220;Many a true word spoken in jest!&#8221; Here&#8217;s another&#8230; WORLD SURVEY BY PHONE Last month a world-wide telephone survey was conducted by the UN. The only question asked was: &#8220;Could you please give your honest opinion about solutions to the food shortage in the rest of the world?&#8221; The survey was a massive &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=3864\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;UN World Survey&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-humourhumor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}